What a lucky lot those @MercantaNA are…they have great Kenyans just in too. Not jealous at all…

Coffee growing was introduced in Kenya by the British in around 1900 and by way of Ethiopia. Agriculture remains the mainstay of the economy, employing around 75% of the population and contributing to some 50% of the country’s exports (led by coffee and tea). Today, the primary growing regions are situated in Kenya’s Central Highlands - on the high plateau just north and north-east of Nairobi, on the southern slopes of Mt. Kenya to the north, and in the foothills of the Aberdare Mountains to the west. The majority of the country’s coffee (around 55%) is produced by upwards of 600,000 smallholders, organised into several hundred cooperatives. The rest of the country’s production is by medium and large estates, many of which run their own wet - and sometimes also dry - mills. Only Arabica is cultivated in Kenya. In the 1950s, several extremely successful hybrids from Scott L...